Nevada County picayune., 1887-10-26
How to Get Rich.

oniremelt of wealth. Gen. Benl. 1 F. Butler responds as foltows:. { 1 A difficult task is set me, as cir cunstances under which young men commence life are so widely varied. But l think that mUfo youno fail in the investment of what they earn or receive than m any other way to acquire proper ty. The temptations to speculate are so great, and the desire to be- come suddenly rich so strong. ! that l believe eight out nf ten, il mot more, of oumg men are wreck. cd at the very beginning.
 1 fla young man is earning some thing more than the expense Of his i living, and has no object ill view, 1 he is likely either to increase those expenses carelessly or to loan his money to his friends, and in so doing in the majority Of cas- es he will lose both friends and money. So that the best thing he can do is to have an object, gather up his money, and to have call for 1t which shall be a profitable one. He makes no investment be cause he says s'l have got so little money that it won't come to any thIug. l will wait until get more;" and in waiting, generally, what he has goes.
 When young man has very little money, let him buy some property, preferably a piece, how, ever small, according to his means, of improved real estate that Is paving rent. He had better buy it when sold at auction, under a judicial sale, paying in cash what he can, giving his notes for the balance in small sums coming due at frequently recurring intervals, secured by a mortgage on the property, and then use all his eX' tra income in paying up those notes. It is always safe to dis. count your own note, and if the notes come a little too fast, as soon as he gets anything paid his friends will aid hlm when he Is
 putting his money where 1t call not be lost. and where the proper
 ty is taking care of the interest
 and in a very short time he will r find that he has got very cOnsid
 erable investment. He will be.
 come interested in it, save his money to meet his notes, and he
 will directly come into consider
 able possession of property, and
 hardly know how it came to him
 That is, he will have had motive
 for saving. and will get the result of that saving, and will not be
 tempted to enter into speculation
 Nothing is so safe tor an invest
 ment as improved real estate
 Nothing is likely to grow in value
 faster In the last 50 years 90 pei
 cent of all the merchants md trad
 CTS in Boston have failed. In the
 last 70 years 90 per cent of all the
 business corporations have failed or gone out of business, so that
 their stock has been wiped out
 In the last 90 years all the i'm proved real estate on the average had paid it's interest and taxes an,
 quadrupled in value. If young
 mans father can give him any : thing to start him in the world, h, had better invest it in that way and let it accumulate and earn his
 living, and he will be richer thal . if he had gone into business. Jay . Gould is said to have started iron a mouse trap seller to become | ? millionaire, Assming that to b, true. he Is only one of G0,OOO, ,00t : of peoples; and if any young man } thinks that he is going to initiate Jay Gould, there are G0,O0O,00t chances to one that he won't sue
 ceed.
 The rule that l would lav down : for young man is, never to do q mean thing for money. Be pru
 dent and saving of your money
 Be careful to have no interest ac- count running against you, unless you have an equal or greater inter est account running in your favor Work diligently, and you are sure
 of q competency in your old age;
 and as early as possible, if vou
 can, find a saving, prudent girl } who has been brought up by Il mother who knows how to ,akr care of house. and make wife